Back to school. A whole new semester of trying to push myself to go to classes, smoke less pot and go to fewer concerts.
Call me crazy but balancing work and school with concerts and pot doesn't seem entirely unreasonable. More or less the name of the game is figuring out what exactly I should be doing with myself NEXT year. This year is just a means to an end.
2009 concert time begins this evening with the outrageous money grab known as Dirty Disko at UP! on Carling starring Toronto's own Mstrkrft. Not that I'm not pumped for it, I feel like it is completely ridiculous to charge 40 dollars for a dj set. Unless of course the set is brought to us by Jesus, or someone of comparable turntable wizardy. (Of course, I'm just assuming Jesus would be able to throw down).
Justice wasn't even 40 bucks, and hating I am not, Justice was not worth however much it was. But this is the direction that rich electro hipsters are willing to go, and who am I if not one to conform.
For the record, a DJ set should resemble something like the magnificent show put on by Ill Insanity and Roc Raida at the Knitting Factory (R.I.P.) in NYC this summer. Which, might I add...was free.
On an unrelated tip, the mega talented, wicked wonderful Neko Case and her always intriguing record label ANTI Records have vowed to donate 5 dollars for each blog to post her new single, "People Got A Lotta Nerve" to The Best Friends Animal Society. Which is one of Americas' foremost animal rescue organizations.
Neko Case-People Got A Lotta Nerve
So, download it, it's free, it's awesome, and it's for a great cause. Also, if you're on facebook or iLike (or both), make sure you Ilike Neko Case because for each of those, one dollar will be donated to this great cause on your behalf.
Neko Case's new album Middle Cyclone will be out March 3rd. Mark your calenders.
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I don't even know this Neko Case you are speaking of but I am going to do whatever the fuck since it goes to animal aid! Hell yes! I thought you said it was thirty bucks not forty! That's fucking ridiculous. Balls out bro.
Neko Case is a rebel, though not intentionally. She's banned from the Grand Ole Opry for taking her shirt off during her set because she was having heatstroke. "No excuse!", the old country farts cried. I mean, The Grand Ole Opry is nice and all - I was there last year - but they need to lighten up a bit. Some of them probably hated her right away, if they listened to some of her other work. She was in a punk band in the 90s I think, and of course, The New Pornographers... Probably not too many Nashville hicks listen to them...
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